Hardware-Supported Fault Tolerance for Multiprocessors

To provide a computing system to be dependable fault tolerance mechanisms have to be included. Especially massive parallelism represents a new challenge for fault tolerance. In this paper we discuss basic hardware fault tolerance measures for massively parallel multiprocessors and solutions realized for and integrated into different multiprocessor architectures. Further we present our validation technique for dependability based on simulation-based fault injection.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ARCS
• Authors: Mario Dal Cin, Wolfgang Hohl, Volkmar Sieh
• Keywords: ARCS 1997, Fault Tolerance, Fault Tolerance Measures, Fault Tolerance Mechanisms, Software Engineering